Hurlman v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
927 F.2d 74 · 1991
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Act Up!/Portland v. Bagley (1992), Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York (1993)
45 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Payton v. New York · Malley v. Briggs
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“officials may remove a child from the custody of the parent without consent or a prior court order only in “emergency” circumstances. Emergency circumstances mean circumstances in which the child is immediately threatened with harm, for example, where there exists an immediate threat to the safety of the child, or where the child is left bereft of care and supervision, or where there is evidence of serious ongoing abuse and the officials have reason to fear imminent recurrence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has its principal focus on the particular facts of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]mergency circumstances mean circumstances in which the child is immediately threatened with harm, ..., for example, where there exists an `immediate threat to the safety of the child,' ... or where the child is left bereft of care and supervision, ... or where there is evidence of serious ongoing abuse and the officials have reason to fear imminent recurrence....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.